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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	You want a safe mail client. Use a, or set your, mail client processing mails in plain/text only. And of course only click on links in apparently legitimate mails ( with a body and subject relevant to you and the person ) from people you know and trust, once you have glanced at the status bar to double check the target URL. Personnaly I use ThunderBird. Show messages in HTML, without images. Mails whose FROM is in my address book are not marked as junk. All bounced mail, with 3 domain names you get a lot of those, are marked as junk and moved to a specific folder for triage ... which 99.9% of the time consist in marking them as read and keep the junk flag. Now I use bounced address on one of my domains to register/purchase things. This way I don't pollute my real email addresses and can easily filter all traffic on say amazon.com@oneOfMyDomains.com My work email address is seldomly spread, and I trust the people there. In fact there has been no virus infection or trojan since Outlook was officially banned a few years ago. As for my subscriptions to mailing lists and RSS/Atom feeds, it's mostly techy stuffs ( What WG & W3C mailing lists, tech sites + web comics ) so I guess it'd be easy to spot something fishy. Plus when my feeds mention a seemingly intersting article, I usually type the URL / click the favicon of the site myself in my browser. Also, I use a pretty safe browser. And I know how the guys treat security and privacy. [slightlyOffTopic] [quote]I think, in terms of security, that the safest web browser is also the most stable and ubber popular Firefox - I resort to IE often times, but do prefer FF and think the security of IE is a joke - and an intrusive one at that.[/quote]Secunia and other security report sites tends to disagree with you ;) [/slightlyOffTopic] [url=http://www.p01.org/][sigrotate][img]http://poi.ribbon.free.fr/files/p01_ozoneasylum_sig_love.gif[/img]\|[img]http://poi.ribbon.free.fr/files/p01_ozoneasylum_sig_love_small.gif[/img]\|[img]http://poi.ribbon.free.fr/files/p01_ozoneasylum_sig_charly.gif[/img]\|[img]http://poi.ribbon.free.fr/files/p01_ozoneasylum_sig_dk.gif[/img]\|[img]http://poi.ribbon.free.fr/files/p01_ozoneasylum_sig_reason.gif[/img]\|[img]http://poi.ribbon.free.fr/files/p01_ozoneasylum_sig_galaxy.gif[/img]\|[img]http://poi.ribbon.free.fr/files/p01_ozoneasylum_sig_neon88x31.gif[/img]\|[img]http://poi.ribbon.free.fr/files/p01_ozoneasylum_sig_teapot.png[/img][/sigrotate][/url] Loading...
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